Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator

Ocean Decarbonization in the Caribbean
2022-11-22 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Port_of_Spain)
Please join the Maritimes Energy Association and Net Zero Atlantic for a webinar on ocean decarbonization in the Caribbean. Hear from keynote speaker, Racquel Moses, UNFCCC global ambassador and chief executive officer, Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator as well as regional stakeholders on the importance of ocean decarbonization.
The ocean is central to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilizing the Earth’s climate. This session aims to put together regional stakeholders and Atlantic Canadian companies involved in the Decarbonization of the Oceans and the Blue Economy to look beyond current solutions and brainstorm about high-impact interventions to decarbonize the Caribbean Ocean ecosystem. Our experts will discuss global trends in the sector, the pressing needs in the Caribbean decarbonization space, potential international financial institutions’ support in the space, examples of work by Ports in the region to green the industry, and how to enhance public and private collaboration to create meaningful impact. Atlantic Canada is at the forefront of research and development in the decarbonization of the ocean and electrification of the marine industry, and this webinar should be a way to start linkages between key players in our region and the Caribbean, allowing for future connections and collaborations in the Blue Economy.
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Moving towards Article 6 implementation through capacity building and blending with climate finance - COP 27
2022-11-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Room Akhenaten, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
The event’s main objective is to improve SIDS’ capacity to implement Article 6. A speedy implementation of Article 6 is made possible by international development of particular methodological tools as well as the role of private and state climate finance in blending with credit sales income.

Leveraging Climate Finance to Build Caribbean Resilience
2022-11-15 09:00 - 11:00 | CARICOM Pavillion
The Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator (CCSA) will host an Investor Forum from the United Nations climate change summit, COP27, on November 15, 2022 at 3pm EET. Focused on leveraging climate finance to fund resilience-building initiatives in the Caribbean, this will be the CCSA’s first COP Side Event and will feature attendees and panelists at the summit interacting with speakers.

Materializing the Caribbean Green Hydrogen Opportunity COP27
2022-11-14 07:30 - 20:30 | NDC Partnership Pavilion at COP27, Egypt
Join the NDC Partnership today at #COP27! Watch our featured events on Facebook Live, or attend in our Pavilion, located in Area C, Zone 2, Pavilion #126. #CollectiveAction
Watch live: https://bit.ly/3NOJhNu
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Small island states, climate justice and International Law: Raising ambitions for the SDGs and Paris Agreement commitments
2022-11-11 12:00 - 13:00
International law has been under-utilised as an instrument to hold states responsible for climate-related harm. That is changing. Over the past year, small island states – already experiencing some of the gravest impacts of climate breakdown – have taken strong steps towards securing climate justice through the use of international law.

Race to Resilience Sessions
2022-11-11 09:30 - 10:30
An inclusive virtual and physical space to mobilise action on resilience at COP27 and beyond
Join us at Regional Resilience Hubs in the lead up to the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) and take part virtually and in person in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

The Resilience Hub is designed to connect and inspire people across business, civil society, academia and government to collaborate and scale up action that builds resilience to the impact of climate change and makes communities around the world safer, healthier and more just.
We are motivated by the urgent need to increase the level of ambition and finance given to building resilience, particularly for the world’s most vulnerable populations, and placing locally informed, equitable solutions centre stage in the run up to and during COP.
Following a successful inaugural Hub at COP26 in Glasgow, the Resilience Hub is returning as a dynamic, inclusive virtual and physical space at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2022.

Outreach & Diversity in the Environmental and Cultural Sectors
2022-11-11 04:30 - 05:30
Environmental conditions such as flooding or hurricanes can result in temporary or permanent migration or displacement. Such events and movement patterns are anticipated to increase under a changing climate. This can result in economic, societal, and cultural losses, as well as detriments to health. Some people are more likely to suffer than others. What steps might be taken to help make communities more resilient and in ways that would enable them to participate in a Just Transition and reconstruction more fully? To address the dynamic and development of change in complex socio-ecological systems, panelists consider issues of resilience, adaptability and transformability across multiple scales. There is an overarching concern in addressing risk, disaster, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding post-disaster and whether it is possible to foster resilience at small, manageable scales when confronted with larger governance structures and entrenched patterns of resource accumulation that are less resilient.

Ocean x Climate Summit
2022-11-11 03:30 - 22:00
THE OCEAN X CLIMATE SUMMIT
On 11 November 2022, Oceanic Global and partners will host an all-day Summit at the Park Regency in Sharm El-Sheikh, to immerse global stakeholders in the importance and potential of the ocean within the climate change narrative, and to support multiI stakeholder action for the ocean and all it sustains.

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Unlocking Private Sector Finance to Accelerate Climate Action in Small and other Vulnerable Countries
2022-11-10 14:30 - 15:00
The Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the Governments of Saint Lucia, Namibia and Zambia will be hosting a COP27 event , ‘Unlocking Private Sector Finance to Accelerate Climate Action in Small and other Vulnerable Countries’. Thursday 10 November and will provide an opportunity to discuss experiences on private sector engagement in climate action by member countries, financing institutions and other non-governmental organisations around readiness initiatives for climate action, climate budget tagging and new financing instruments

Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP27
2022-11-10 09:30 - 10:15
The Sustainable Innovation Forum

With 1.5 degrees in jeopardy, we need bold collaboration and brave action at COP27. The Sustainable Innovation Forum 2022 (now in its 13th year) will convene over 500 heads of state, ministers, CEO’s, investors, multilateral dignitaries, and city leaders in the largest multi stakeholder event at the COP27 negotiations. The Forum aims to enable forge cross-sector partnerships between the non-state actor community, to shift climate action out of silos and leverage ambitious, collaborative global efforts to keep warming within 1.5 degrees.

Date: Day 2 – November 10 2022
Time: 14:30 – 15:10 GMT + 2
Panel: How can data, digitisation and automation secure real decarbonisation and climate action in line with <1.5 degrees warming?
Digitisation and IoT are generating more data than we know how to use. This data enables us to track, monitor, measure and optimise
production across our supply chains as well as drive efficiencies and futureproofing across the built environment. But there are trade-offs
to manage from increasing digitisation including unemployment, energy use of data centres and security risks.
• How can we ensure digital solutions deliver our human and planetary needs?
• How can data driven disruption help us decarbonise energy at the exponential rates we require?
• How is digitisation set to transform different sectors’ adaptation and mitigation efforts; industry, buildings, transport and most
crucially energy?
• How can digitisation drive out inefficiencies in the industrial sectors?

Devex @ COP 27
2022-11-10 05:30 - 07:00
On November 10, Devex will host a series of provocative conversations on global development and climate change on the sidelines of the COP 27 negotiations in person in Sharm El-Sheik. This won’t be your standard COP event. Step outside of the blue zone as we spotlight how low- and middle-income countries are included — or not — in these critical conversations while being the most impacted. We’ll dig into cross-cutting issues such as health, food systems, migration, and finance, and how climate intersects with every facet of achieving the sustainable development goals.

Enabling Universal Participation in the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)
2022-11-09 06:30 - 13:00
As part of the transition to the ETF, the UNFCCC secretariat will provide an update on recent transparency outcomes and key milestones between now and 2025. Speakers will address reporting tools, review processes, engagement with developing country Parties, and next steps in ETF implementation.
ORGANIZER: Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Caribbean Investment Forum
2022-11-08 08:00 - 2022-11-11 17:00
As the Caribbean recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and re-opens for business, new opportunities are abound. The Caribbean Investment Forum will support efforts to accelerate the region’s transition to a greener and SMARTer sustainable economy creating jobs and opportunity for our people.

Investment projects from 23 Caribbean states in the fields of digital economy, agribusiness, blue economy, sustainable tourism, logistics and transportation and renewable energy will be presented to regional and global investors.

Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 Consultation Workshop
2022-11-07 08:00 - 2022-11-09 17:00
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional
The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) was originally mandated by the United Nations Member States in the outcome document of the 2012 “Rio +20” conference on sustainable development, “The Future We Want”. Three years later, as part of the 2030 Agenda, Member States reaffirmed the importance of the GSDR and requested in 2016 that it would be written by an independent group of
scientists (IGS). The first report was published in 2019. The next report is scheduled for release in September 2023. The IGS, appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General, consists of 15 leading experts from the
natural and social sciences, representing developed and developing countries. The current group is co- chaired by Prof. Imme Scholz of Germany and Prof. J. Jaime Miranda of Peru.
As requested by Member States, the GSDR aims to strengthen the science-policy interface and to provide evidence-based guidance on global sustainable development issues and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The report is an important instrument to inform the deliberations at the quadrennial Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Summit (next held in September 2023), where it is presented to
heads of state, who take stock on the progress towards the 2030 Agenda. The 2023 report will be launched at the half-way point on the 2030 Agenda when decision-makers will be looking for practical solutions that can accelerate progress.
The 2023 GSDR will incorporate a broad range of existing scholarship on SDG implementation. It will build on the 2019 GSDR which identified four levers for change as well as adding a fifth lever on capacities:

Governance
Economy and finance,
Individual and collective action
Science and technology
Capacities

It will also build from the six entry points identified in the 2019 GSDR where interlinkages among the SDGs are especially strong such that interventions can address many goals and targets:

Strengthening human wellbeing and capabilities
Shifting toward sustainable and just economies
Building sustainable food systems and healthy nutrition patterns
Achieving energy decarbonization with universal access to energy
Promoting sustainable urban and peri-urban development
Securing the global environmental commons

For the 2023 GSDR, the IGS will expand on the 2019 report with a focus on accelerating action and overcoming impediments that stand in the way of making the levers work together toward transformation through the entry points. Acceleration and enabling transformations is critical as the world struggles to rebuild in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. The time dynamics of transformation and implementation are explicitly addressed — moving from emergence toward acceleration and finally to stabilization. The focus will be on identifying concrete recommendations and tools grounded in evidence for accelerating the implementation of the SDGs and on making the field of science more supportive to this acceleration.

Technical Dialogue under the first Global Stocktake at COP27
2022-11-06 - 2022-11-12
At COP26 in Glasgow, the first global stocktake (GST1) was launched with the goal of assessing the collective progress towards achieving the purpose and long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, as well as enhancing climate action and support. The outcome of the GST in 2023 will inform Parties when updating and upscaling their actions and support, as well as in enhancing international cooperation on climate action.

Decarbonization Panel: Low Carbon Pathways in Caribbean Shipping and Ports Services
2022-11-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino, 200 Convention Boulevard, San Juan, Puerto Rico

CANNING CONFERENCES Energy and Renewables
2022-10-27 12:30 - 14:30 | Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood St, London EC2V 7WS, 1 Wood St,, London, United Kingdom
In Canning House’s upcoming Sustainable Development conference, we look again at Latin America’s progress in its Energy and Renewables sectors, and where key opportunities can be found, in partnership with Eversheds Sutherland.

ESG and Net Zero: Securing a sustainable future for the Caribbean
2022-10-27 10:00 - 13:00
We are all impacted by climate change and some parts of the world, like the Caribbean, are being more acutely impacted sooner than others. Our event aims to bring together regional leaders from government and business to convene a discussion on environmental, social and governance (ESG) and net zero trends and the likely implications for the Caribbean, and to make the case for action, now, to help secure a sustainable future.

3rd Annual Caribbean Future Summit
2022-10-25 11:00 - 13:00
The Caribbean Future Summit is the world’s most iconic summit curating an active network of investors, tech entrepreneurs, celebrities, politicians, and business moguls. Each year the program gathers 1000 pioneers from across the Caribbean and around the world to address and tackle challenges that affect the Caribbean’s future. The summit serves as a platform for influencers who are sourcing innovative solutions and partners that leverage exponential technology to accelerate the Caribbean as the world’s leading tech, tourism, and creative hub.
11:00am-11:30am EST Spotlight Panel Session The Caribbean career perspective and the investment ecosystem of the future- Speaker share career advice and opportunities available in the tourism and technology sector.

2030 Renewable Energy Vision, Where Are We?
2022-10-19 08:30 - 10:00
The Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI), through its Green Committee will be hosting a Renewable Energy Expo under the theme: “2030 Renewable Energy Vision, Where Are We?”
The event’s theme directly connects with the Prime Minister, the Hon. Mia Mottley’s mandate for Barbados to be 100% renewable energy efficient by the year 2030.
Topics including:

Leveraging Financing & Investment Opportunities for Renewable Energy Projects
New Paths Toward Self-Sufficiency with Renewable Resources
Hydrogen– The Energy of the Future?
E-Mobility: Road to Electrifying Transportation in Barbados

Jamaica’s Climate Action
2022-10-18 11:00 - 12:00
Do you have questions about Jamaica’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), Renewable Energy Transition & Electric Vehicles? Ask us your questions using the hashtag #AskCCSA as we go live with Senator The Honourable Matthew Samuda, GOJ!
Join us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Pd7u9YQ46B1h4b4WgPPtQ
Twitter https://twitter.com/ccs_accelerator
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/caribbeanclimatesmartaccelerator
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/74800575

Ensuring a Just Energy Transition across the Commonwealth
2022-10-18 07:00 - 09:00
About the Critical Conversations virtual event series
With great disruption and uncertainty comes unimagined opportunities for progress and change.
We need much better ideas—and more powerful, diverse voices—to hold ourselves and our governments to account. We need these voices and ideas to lead the transformation of systems and attitudes that entrench inequality and marginalise so many.
Critical Conversations will ask—and try to answer—the big, important questions of our age. How do we harness the best of humanity—the forces of love, compassion, equality, and justice—to advance our common future and protect our planet? How do we acknowledge the past in ways that advance a common vision for the future? How do we work together to build or re-fashion our institutions so that they support a world that leaves no one behind?
The online series will bring together dynamic and diverse speakers to deliver frank and fresh perspectives on questions that really matter to the Commonwealth’s 2.5 billion citizens. While the series will cover a broad range of topics, the central themes come back to the core values and principles of the Commonwealth including democracy, human rights, participatory governance and the rule of law. READ MORE
VIDEO: Ensuring a Just Energy Transition across the Commonwealth

2nd Hydrogen Congress for Latin America & the Caribbean
2022-10-04 - 2022-10-05 | HYATT REGENCY CARTAGENA COLOMBIA, Cra. 1 #12-118, Cartagena de Indias, Provincia de, Colombia
The Hydrogen Congress for Latin America and the Caribbean (H2LAC) is the largest gathering of the emerging Hydrogen industry in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Co-hosted by the IDB, over 500 delegates, including senior government officials from 20 countries in the region, attended the inaugural event in 2021.
For 2022, it’s time for the rubber to hit the road. Can Hydrogen decarbonize regional industries and transportation? How bankable are the pipeline of MOUs which have seen the light of day in the past 12 months? Can Hydrogen help reactivate Latin American and Caribbean economies and is Hydrogen the region’s next big export?
Confirmed Speaker:
Racquel Moses
UNFCCC | CARIBBEAN CLIMATE SMART ACCELERATOR
Global Ambassador | Chief Executive Officer

VIS2022
2022-09-27
We will be at the Virtual Island Summit 2022! Kiesha Farnum our Director of Public Sector Projects will be speaking on Day Two
Building Bridges Between SIDS and the African Region for COP27
08:00am EDT (New York) | 13:00pm BST (London) | 22:00pm AEST (Sydney)
As the United Nation’s annual climate change summit (COP27) looms, there is a need for communities in the Global South to have their voices heard. The climate crisis disproportionately affects African nations and Small Island Developing States – in a time where action is needed, the first step is to build bridges. This session brings together voices from SIDS and the African continent to find common ground in the lead up to COP27.
With Dr. Omnia El Omrani, COP27 Youth Envoy, Yasmine Encelade, SMO Solar and Basil Angaga, Chief Sustainability Officer, County Government of Mombasa.

Global Maritime Forum’s Annual Summit 2022
2022-09-26 08:00 - 17:00
Climate Action in Shipping: Progress towards Shipping’s 2030 Breakthrough

Shipping, powered by fossil fuels, transports around 90% of global trade and accounts for 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Under business-as-usual, emissions may increase by 130% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. To align with the 1.5C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement, and achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, scalable zero emission fuels should make up 5% of international shipping fuels by 2030. Progress towards Shipping’s 2030 Breakthrough report assesses progress to a goal of having scalable zero emission fuels make up 5% of international shipping fuels by 2030. In this livestream, lead authors, Katharine Palmer, Shipping Lead – Climate Champions Team and Dr Domagoj Baresic, Research Associate – UMAS, will present findings from the report.

CAREC Conference and Exhibition
2022-09-25 - 2022-09-29
The 2022 CAREC Conference and Exhibition, under the theme ‘Navigating the Course of Power Sector Modernisation and Combatting Climate Change with Green Electricity and Resilient Infrastructure’, will particularly focus on learning and development through educational and insightful sessions on power grid resilience, RE expansion, alternative energy services, and e-mobility. CARILEC envisions that the critical examination of these topics will tremendously assist energy sector professionals, in their thrust to reduce fossil-fuel generation and carbon emissions, thereby bringing the region closer to a more affordable and reliable electricity supply in a sustainable future. This conference explores how to drive value, overcome challenges, and increase business capabilities by sharing best-practices, lessons learnt, expertise, and resources among regional and international energy industry leaders.

The 6th Caribbean Infrastructure Forum (CARIF)
2022-09-19 08:00 - 2022-09-20 17:00
The 6th Caribbean Infrastructure Forum (CARIF) returns, live and in-person, at the Ritz-Carlton in Coconut Grove, Miami this September 19-20, 2022
Investment in state of the art, sustainable infrastructure will play a critical role in stimulating economic growth, accelerating decarbonization, and building resilience across the Caribbean.
But in the face of extreme weather events and extraordinary economic and public-health challenges, how have the infrastructure priorities of island governments – and the demands of local and visiting populations – changed? While the disruptions have been significant, what trends are accelerating and what does the project pipeline look like? Green and resilient is touted as the ultimate goal but how – and with what funding – can projects be delivered? And who is tendering, bidding, investing, financing and building the next generation of infrastructure across the region?
More than ever, the region’s infrastructure market needs a meeting place, a venue to pollinate ideas, originate projects, and source financing. Now, in its 6th year, and firmly established as the go-to regional infrastructure event, the market needs CARIF.
Join us this September 19-20 when we bring together more than 250 leaders from 30 countries to shape the future of infrastructure and capital projects for the Caribbean.

Climate Week NYC 2022
2022-09-19 - 2022-09-25
Climate Week NYC 2022, marks its fourteenth year as the biggest global climate event of its kind. Bringing together the most influential leaders in climate action from business, government, and the climate community, in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly and the City of New York. Climate Week NYC creates an ambitious platform for our mission to drive climate action. Fast.
As the organizers of Climate Week NYC, Climate Group hosts a main program of in-person events in New York which include the Climate Week NYC Opening Ceremony and The Hub Live.

Webinar: How can IPAs create an environment that supports and develops female leadership?
2022-09-15
📢 Towards gender equality in FDI
💻 FDI Center will be hosting a webinar on the 15th September at 15:00 CET on the topic of: How can investment promotion agencies create an environment in which female leaders can develop and be successful within the IPA?
⚖️ This is the first webinar as part of our wider initiative Towards Gender Equality in FDI, in which we aim to bring disparities in gender equality in the FDI and investment promotion industry to the forefront of discussion.

77th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77)
2022-09-13 - 2022-09-26
The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) will open on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 20 September 2022.
We will add more information to this page as it becomes available.

dates: 13-27 September 2022
location: New York City, US
